Browsing by Author "Ofori-Atta, Eric"
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Item Open Access Building a pedagogy of critical curiosity in professional education: The power of popular culture in the classroom(FPCEUC - Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal CEAD - Centre for the Research on Adult Education and Community Intervention (CEAD), University of Algarve, Portugal ESREA - European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, 2020-01) Jubas, Kaela; Ofori-Atta, Eric; Ross, SherriItem Open Access Experiences of Black Evangelicals in Predominantly White Evangelical Churches in Calgary(2021-08) Ofori-Atta, Eric; Simmons, Marlon; Spencer, Brenda; Zaidi, RahatIn Canada, there is a dearth of research on Black experiences in the Christian evangelical church. Using a narrative qualitative methodology and undergirded by a critical race theory (CRT) theoretical framework, I explored the experiences of 5 Black evangelicals in predominantly White evangelical churches (PWECs). I focused on the challenging experiences they go through in PWECs, how they have responded to these challenging experiences and the factors that contributed to the choice of attending PWECs. Participants had to identify as Black and had to have been members of a PWEC in Calgary for at least a year. Through semi-structured interviews, I explored their experiences with them and the themes that emerged suggest that Black evangelicals go through a host of challenging experiences such as racism and racial microaggressions, and the lack of meaningful relationships in PWECs. As a result of these experiences, Black evangelicals have devised a host of strategies in response to these challenging experiences. Further, in spite of these experiences, it emerged that all the participants preferred attending PWECs for various reasons, one of the most important being the problems they perceived within the Black churches. These generally align with what is found in the broader literature, and the experiences of these Black evangelicals provide one instance of how Black people in Canada navigate life in a racialized society.Item Open Access Navigating possibilities together: Exploring the wonder of relationality(2022-05-03) Hart, Stephen; Ofori-Atta, Eric; Patten, Francesca; Williams, AbigailInspired by the notion of relationality within Indigenous ways of knowing, and writing as a method of inquiry, we explore the value of the collaborative process in all its wonder. Our presentation highlights the experiences of four students in a doctoral seminar, embracing the interconnectedness of human relationships to find a rich and rewarding pathway into inquiry and understanding. We contend that the process of engaging in group work, where all participants contribute to a continuum of learning moments, can add value to learning. Throughout the inquiry, we found our work to be situated within the ambiguity apparent in both the process and the literature. It was in navigating these complexities together that meaning emerged. In this presentation we describe the formation of a generative and productive space as we wrote together, listened, debated words and sentences, and built on each other's ideas. We tell of a shared experience where we found ourselves not just writing together but also thinking together. Accordingly, we collectively recognized our collaborative work as facilitating an opening of possibilities. Here, our collaborative efforts became a shared avenue for cultivating relational accountability and a conduit for moving our work forward in a good way. In this context, the presenters consider the potential utility of adopting a framework for collaboration that can attend to the multiple dimensions of relationality. Poster viewers are invited to consider how their engagement in postsecondary group work has contributed, and might contribute, to the shared building of meaning.